The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-03-10
BOILED INTO BREVITY.
A Few Minutes With the News Of This
Vicinity.
Items Picked Up In and Around This
County by the Ever Present Demo-
orat News Gatheror---Per-
SOnAl Points, Etc.

Talk Of organizing q military COM
Dsny at Louisville.
James and william Carson, the coun-
terfeiters, were taken to Cleveland this
morning by Policemen Schlagle and
MeCOrt. They will be arTalgned there
before U. 8. Commissioner White.
Citlzsns residing In the suburban
parts Of the city are busy making gar
den, something unu' ual at this time Of
year. The spring birds have also made
their appearance. Everything betOkens
an early spring.
Besides new station building at
Canton, the Fort Wayne r. r. Company
will improve the grade east and west Of
Canton. This will necessitste the grad
ing Of Buck Hill which is to be done and
so Improve by diminishing the grades.
Mt Union college faculty has forbid
den the sweet girl students going walk
ing with the hOrrid boys. The indig-
nant damsels signed a remOnstrance,
but one by one erased their names from
the paper after an interview with the
preX. ..t
The Alliance school board at its regu-
lar meeting on Monday evening passed
a resolution Offering $4,000 for the ALI
snce College property, In accordance
with the recent vote Of the district. 1t
is understood that the offer will be ac-
CeDted, II so, Alliance is In luck for
once.
The initial number Of the Louisville
Herald Ia at hand. The little lady has
a clean face, nice clothes and Is as pref
ty as a pink. In politics and religion 1t
Ia independent and will aim to make
itself q necessity III that village and
community The DEMOCRAT extends
hearty greeting and best wishes for a
long and prosperous career.
Amos B. Nose, OF Navarro, got himself
into trouble last week by writing on
circular which he sent In the mails.
Deputy Marshal 0dell Of Cleveland ar
rested Nose at bis home Monday morn
ing and Monday evening he plead guilty
aud was fined $40 and costs by Judge
Welker. By putting a one-cent stamp on
the circular In place Of q two-cent stamp
Mr.. Nose became guilty Of an offense
against the United States.
Catharine Vaughn, wife Of vii.
Vaug n, the hOrsethief recently sent to
the penitentiary from Carroll county,
has commenced suit In Cleveland to re-
cover $3.50 from John Shean & Co., " hich
she alleges her husband lost In gamb-
ling. She claims that the money was
given to her by her father at the time of
her marriage, and she let her husband
take 1t TO buy horses with. She says her
husband lost the money she lent him
playing faro without her knowledge
and consent.
At 8 o'clock Monday morning the en-
gine house at the Beaver run mine, Just
on the outskirts Of Navarro, was entirely
consumed by fire. One Of the boilers
was dismounted and the engine will
have to be replaced with q new one. 1t
is feared the mine will be flooded before
an engine Of sufficient power can be got
ten here to keep the pumps going. Work
will be suspended at least for two or
1t will be longer. The loss will run
into the thousands Of dollars.
"MaxlmO," Strasburg correspondent
Of the Alliance Review, says: Father
HaVerstick has passed his Goth mile
stone. he still lives on the old home
stead, the land he entered more than 60
years ago. He Is hale and
hearty and bids fair to see ten years
more Of this life. In his declining years
he is being kindly cared for by Joseph
Kelther, his brOther-ln-law. Father
Haverstick, Uncle Z N, Johnson and
Father 0sWalt are all over 80 years Il
age. They rank among the Oldest piO-
neers Of eastern Stark county. When
they first settled down here Washington
township was bowling wilderness.
Mrs. Snyder Of Warren, sometime
since began suit for a divorce from her
husband, and alimony. She also at the
sametlme obtained an injunction against
defendant and his brother, Hon. 7. G.
Snyder, Of Canton, from dispOslng of
property. 1t is also alleged that T. G.
Snyder had obtained mortgage of
81, $50 from the defendant without con-
sidersti0n and for the purpose of de
fraudlng plaintiff. 7. G. answered, de
nying the truth Of the allegations and
alleging full consideration to secure
HIN on an Indebtedness for plows, etc.,
furnished defendant as agent. The suit
Is on trial this week, at Warren, and q
large number Of witnesses have been
summoned.
The village of Jnstus is all tore up
over the advent of some strange wild
animal Of unknown species, which
makes hideOus cries, chsses old ladies
and kills and eats their hogs. The
neighbOrhO0d is In arms and on the hunt
of the the terrible creature, but at last
accounts have got no clue. The
Justus correspondent Of the Ma
vsrre Independent, Of this week, says:
One Of our farmers, John D. KaylOr,
AYERS that on Thursday night of last
week he heard the sQuealing Of one of
his hogs, and that on going to the door
the hideous shrieks Of a wild animal
mingled with the squealing of the hog,
frightened him that he returned to his
house for safety; and that on the follow
ing morning he found the hog dead
about two hundred yards from his house
partly devoured by the what is-it. !"
1t ran Mrs. Smith at her full speed fully
eighty rods, having been concealed In q
huge white oak tree, from which 1t made
Its spring. Mrs. Smith, on arriving at
the home Of Fred Grossklaus, was
speechless for some time; and Mr. Gross
klaus AYERS that he heard the what is
IT make hideous cries as 1t retHeated to
Its covert In the WOOde:" and the COrre-